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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Wed Jun 13 15:52:56 2001

Christopher Johnston wrote:

> Intermedia Business Internet has been running multicast enabled for a couple
> of years now. It is an unsupported service that is freely available to all
> dedicated customers.

Glad to hear this !

Just for the record, you  can see the full current list of participants in the multicast enabled Internet
at

http://www.multicasttech.com/status/mbgp.sum

This is updated dynamically serveral times per day.

                                 Regards
                                 Marshall Eubanks


>
>
> > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Deepak Jain wrote:
> >
> >
> >       Don't know why I came across this, but I found a document on Sprintlink's
> > site that says their entire backbone is multicast enabled, and they also
> > peer with the MBONE for multicast traffic. They charge no fee for dedicated
> > customers to be multicast-enabled.
> >
> >       Are any other major networks doing this? Or have I been living under a rock
> > and _everyone_ is doing this now?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Deepak Jain
> > AiNET
> >
> >
>
> ----
> Christopher Johnston - [email protected]
> Manager, Tier III & Network Operations
> Intermedia Business Internet
> 24-hour Support 888-297-1400






T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624       Fax     : 703-293-9609
e-mail : [email protected]
http://www.on-the-i.com

Test your network for multicast : http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
 Check the status of multicast in real time :
 http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html